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yin7yang64 · Mar 25, 2004, 01:36 PM

I saw this Desktop Snapshot on ResExcellence and instantly wondered how this user got different headings into the menubar. Is this an easy hack I've never heard of?

http://www.resexcellence.com/snapsho...roylando.shtml

(Sorry for bringing it up here. I posted the question there and my post disappeared.)

wibs · Mar 25, 2004, 01:40 PM

Looks like language localization to me. Not a hack, just everything in the OS is in that language now. When you install OS X you can install other languages... I'm not sure if they're installed by default or not (I think they are, but I always turn it off).

jerseyfreeze · Mar 25, 2004, 01:44 PM

Originally posted by wibs:
Looks like language localization to me. Not a hack, just everything in the OS is in that language now. When you install OS X you can install other languages... I'm not sure if they're installed by default or not (I think they are, but I always turn it off).

Ummm ... which language do you think words like "windex" come from?

-Jason

chezpaul · Mar 25, 2004, 03:14 PM

Originally posted by yin7yang64:
I saw this Desktop Snapshot on ResExcellence and instantly wondered how this user got different headings into the menubar. Is this an easy hack I've never heard of?

http://www.resexcellence.com/snapsho...roylando.shtml

(Sorry for bringing it up here. I posted the question there and my post disappeared.)

It's a hack for sure... not just the menubar is hacked...
U can find it in resex archives for sure... Under OS X mods...

yin7yang64 · Mar 25, 2004, 03:45 PM

I know there's a theme activated, but I thought I knew all the other hacks that would work in OS X. Putting custom text in the menu bar is a new one to me.

fireside · Mar 25, 2004, 03:56 PM

Originally posted by jerseyfreeze:
Ummm ... which language do you think words like "windex" come from?

-Jason

maid?

benign · Mar 25, 2004, 03:58 PM

Or just photoshop'ed after the grab was taken.
The word 'Finder' is of a different weight than
the rest of the text on the menubar.

... and that theme is not DSX - it's all a SWIZ I tell you ;)

solidfox · Mar 25, 2004, 04:11 PM

It's quite easy to do with dev.tools, just edit Menus.nib in finders resources (/System/CoreServices/Finder/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Menus.nib) with interface builder.

york28 · Mar 25, 2004, 04:27 PM

Looks like he changed the text in some of the system files. Couldn't you change the menu text by editing the Menu.nib file in the Finder bundle? As for the about box text, I just looked through /System/Library, and there are little .strings files everywhere as well as some .nib files that seem to contain the info that was changed in this shot. Some of them are inside bundles- The about box/menus are in about three or four places:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Menus.nib

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.bundle/English.lproj/SystemVersion.strings
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.strings
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow/Contents/REsources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.nib

There are probably strings elsewhere as well. Of course, this is on an English system.

yin7yang64 · Mar 25, 2004, 05:31 PM

Veddy cool!

justinp · Mar 25, 2004, 05:53 PM

Originally posted by benign:
The word 'Finder' is of a different weight than the rest of the text on the menubar.

Yeah, just like it always has been...

wibs · Mar 25, 2004, 07:30 PM

Originally posted by jerseyfreeze:
which language do you think words like "windex" come from?

alright, I admit, I didn't look that close. Of course now that I look at it again I notice that it's the Uber Coo Experience...

:: hangs head in shame, promises to pay more attention in the future ::

Holigen · Mar 25, 2004, 10:27 PM

Haha, wibs. Anyways, ya the guy who puts up the screen shots does a really really bad job with getting things right I think. On many occasions, I have seen him put Plastic Pro or something instead of Pro Plastic (Kevin Macleod's mod of Brushed). This even happened to Kevin himself... Really a shame... They need an automated service like MacSnaps.

benign · Mar 26, 2004, 06:09 AM

Originally posted by justinp:
Yeah, just like it always has been...

I'm fully Silk'ed and FruitMenu'ed - it's been a wee' while
since I've seen the OS the way Jobs intended it to be :)

Still think it a photoshop reworking...
and that theme is still a swiz.

justinp · Mar 26, 2004, 10:08 AM

Ahh

It's been a while for me too, but I actually prefer having the app name bold, and Lucida Grande 13pt is great.